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Shaftesbury Borough Cemetery contains 27 Allied war graves of the Second World War, eleven of which belong to foreign servicemen held as prisoners of war in England after the opening of the Second Front in the summer of 1944.
Vladimir Dushin died in 1945 and is buried here. His record carries the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and OBD Memorial record numbers but no grave reference.
The composition of this cemetery states plainly what several of the Soviet burials in Britain have in common: these were men who reached England as prisoners and died before they could leave it.
Address: Mampitts Road, Shaftesbury, North Dorset.
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- A grave reference for Dushin. None is recorded.
- That Dushin was himself among the eleven prisoner-of-war burials. The cemetery composition is stated by the source; which graves it refers to is not.
- Independent verification of the archive record numbers.
- Coordinates.
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Buried here
- Vladimir Dushin
FROM THE RECORD“Private Vladimir Dushin (1916 – 6 February 1945) is buried at Shaftesbury Borough Cemetery, Dorset, England — Grave 840.”
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